FAQ

In simple language yet with legal propriety and correctness, notaries formalize the desires or needs of the people who come to them, whether to execute a notarial deed, to sponsor them, or to represent them in non-contentious legal proceedings, or in administrative procedures.
The counseling the notary provides is professional, impartial, prudent and qualified, consequently benefiting everyone involved.
All signatories are treated with equal consideration and are entitled to an explanation of the content of the deed by the notary until they indicate to the notary their full understanding and consent.
On each occasion, the notary informs the signatories on the value, consequences and legal scope of the content of the deed.

Of course. Notaries in the Federal District can carry forward a succession when the decedent did not leave a will and under the following premises:
a) That the last residence of the decedent was in the Federal District, or that the majority of their property is located there.
b) That the presumed heirs are of legal age or have contracted marriage and are thus qualified.
c) That the presumed heirs prove their kinship to the originator of the succession with the corresponding certified copies of certificates from the Bureau of Vital Statistics.
d) That there is no dispute or controversy between the possible heirs.
The succession may be conducted by a spouse, ascendants, descendants or collaterals to the fourth degree.

The notarial deed is an original document, drafted and authorized by the notary, in which the notary places legal acts on record, such as last will and testaments, powers-of-attorney, inheritances, and contracts such as property sales, donations, incorporation of companies, etc., requiring such protocol. In each instance the notary ensures compliance with all legal requirements so that they serve the purposes of those executing them, thereby providing legal certainty.
A notarial certification is a document drafted and authorized by the notary in which the notary places on record events witnessed by or known to them, such as signature ratifications, proofs of facts, notifications, etc., providing legal certainty in the same way. The deed and the certification are permanently kept in the notarial record and may be duplicated as many times as is necessary.

The notarial record is the set of registers formed by authentication tracking books and their appendices and by numbered and sealed folios in which the notary acts to authorize and put on record the deeds and certifications executed under his authority along with their respective appendices.
The notarial record system established by the Notary Public Act of the Federal District is the open notarial record. That is, a set of unbound numbered folios that according to the Act, will comprise books of a maximum of two hundred folios, as a general rule. Each book has an appendix where documents and other material items related to the instruments that form part of the notarial record are kept.
Moreover, in preparing document authentication, a book called the authentication tracking book is used, which is the set of folios bound with their respective book of appendices. Each book will consist of two hundred folios.
The set of books of the notarial record include dozens of registers, which the notary must keep in the notarial office for five years counted from the date of the closure certification effected by the Notarial Archives. At the end of the term, the notary must release their records to the Notarial Archives for permanent storage.

The notary is dedicated to serving the welfare and peace of the city, to respect of and compliance with the law and also aids in law enforcement. Thus, besides their notarial duties, the notary can perform activities that cause no conflict or dependence upon their impartial testimony such as:
• Academic, teaching and deanship positions, at public or private academic institutions or as part of citizen efforts.
• Unpaid positions in all kinds of not-for-profit partnerships, corporations, or institutions.
• Guardian or executor positions.
• Secretary positions in companies or partnerships.
• They may also be arbitrators, mediating secretaries, legal mediators, and conciliators.
• The notary may participate, sponsor and represent stakeholders in legal procedures in which there is no dispute or in administrative procedures.

Fulfill the same requirements needed to authorize the first one, that is, if possible, go to the same notary before whom you authorized your last will and testament and express to the notary the changes you wish to make. Take an official photo identification, such as your voter ID, to the second meeting and be present for the reading and signature.
Thus, the last will and testament is a free, revocable, and personal legal act which you may modify as many times as you like, so long as the simple above-mentioned requirements are met. If, during your lifetime, you authorize several wills, the last of them will be the one that shall carry out your intent.